Friday, February 1, 2013

Last week as I drove to work to teach my first two classes of the spring semester, I was listening to Larry Mantle's Airtalk on KPCC, a public radio station out of Pasadena.

The topic was the release of documents proving that Roger Mahoney and his aide had discussed how to keep law enforcement from finding out about certain priests who had confessed to child sexual above and how the two had transferred priests out of the LA area.

I called in to make this point: Catholics and abuse survivors should pressure the Vatican to remove Roger Mahony from his status as a Cardinal.

I also told Larry that he shouldn't continue to refer to Mahony as "Archbishop Emeritus." 'You should just refer to him as 'the former archbishop,'" I said.

"But that's how he's referred to on his official stationery," Larry argued on the air.

"As of today, with the disclosures in these documents, he's no longer Emeritus," I answered.

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In memory of Martha Puebla & In honor of Maria Riveros

On a spring night in 2003, Martha Puebla, age 16, was shot in the face while sitting outside her home in Sun Valley, California, near Los Angeles. Her death was ordered by a gang member on trial for a murder she had witnessed.

On July 13, 2008, in San Ignacio, Paraguay, Maria Riveros took her pregnant 16-year-old daughter to the home of an obstetrician and asked her to perform an abortion. The fetus of about 4 mo. was buried outside the home, but there were complications and the next day Maria had to rush her daughter to a hospital, where a hysterectomy was performed. The obstetrician and her daughter, a nurse, were arrested and charged with performing an abortion.

This blog is dedicated to Martha, Maria and all women who courageously negotiate their lives in this world filled with gang warfare and international warfare, poverty and wealth, drug trafficking and addiction, and lack of access to birth control, legal abortion, and other health care.